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Introduction: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics
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The introduction describes how institutions for the confinement of disability were shaped by the philosophy of eugenics in the early twentieth century. Disability institutions are part of what Liat Ben-Moshe calls the “carceral industrial complex.” Abolitionist knowledge of carceral spaces as forms of reproductive injustice applies to state hospitals, homes for the feebleminded, and other disability institutions. This book uses critical disability studies as a methodology of reading texts for how disablement is produced. The practice of what the author calls carceral eugenics is just one of the ways that crip futurity has been destroyed throughout the twentieth century and into the present. Using a genealogical method, this book builds crip and queer kinship with institutionalized people of the past in order to influence present-day movements to free them all from state confinement.
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